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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

A version of this article first appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Most entrepreneurs today don’t remember the Dot-Com bubble of 1995 or the Dot-Com crash that followed in 2000. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. The idea of the Lean Startup was built on top of the rubble of the 2000 Dot-Com crash.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. The IPO Bubble – August 1995 – March 2000 In August 1995 Netscape went public, and the world of start ups turned upside down.

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How Businesses Can Successfully Brand Themselves On Social Media

YoungUpstarts

Needless to say that before you start and throughout the entire process, you should make sure that technological requirements are met. Due to keeping things generic, some stock images may look false and popular subjects become overused. This is where graphic designers can combine creative copyrighting with clean and striking images.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Google is still a private company (their IPO was Aug 2004). Silicon Valley is still emerging from the tech bubble and massive downturn of late 2000-2002. conference happened at the end of 2004). How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC. How To Think About The Future.

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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

Both Sides of the Table

Facebook had grown stratospherically from 2004-2007 to 100 million users and was everything that MySpace wasn’t. MySpace was: scantily dressed, teenaged, middle-America, design chaos and on ad steroids. At the top end is the business logic created by startups and established technology companies.

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From Loyalty Programs To Fan Clubs, A Paradigm Shift

YoungUpstarts

My company won the ROI of The Year award from The Banker magazine in 2004, something I was very proud of. After a while, people were able to think about automobiles in a new way, which finally paved the way for massive improvements in design and manufacturing. In 2000, we launched a loyalty program for a bank in Turkey, Akbank.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

But Friendster’s computer systems couldn’t keep up with the explosive growth (reportedly due to the complexity of the security model set up to control connections, privacy and authenticity of users) so MySpace was hot on the heels and swept up the market in a very rapid ascent. Is the game over?